Slavery in Brazil
Subtitle: a link in the chain of modernisation : the case of Amazonia
By: Alison Sutton ; a report by Anti-Slavery International.
Contributors: Anti-Slavery International.
Series: Human rights series ;; no. 7; Human rights series ;; report no. 7.
Publisher: Anti-Slavery International
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Slavery -- Brazil.; Unskilled labor -- Abuse of -- Brazil.; Human rights -- Brazil.
Description: "Based on field research for Anti-Slavery International (interviews with workers, their families, the police, government officials, and social activists), author examines relationships between environmental destruction, migrant labor, and human rights abuses. Documents accounts of debt bondage in forest clearing, charcoal burning, rubber tapping, and mining in Amazonia. Foreword by José de Souza Martins"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-150).